IMPROVING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SAFETY AND WELLNESS THROUGH DATA ACT

On 2025-05-15, Representative Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4) delivered a floor speech titled "IMPROVING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SAFETY AND WELLNESS THROUGH DATA ACT" in the House.

IMPROVING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SAFETY AND WELLNESS THROUGH DATA ACT

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 82 (Thursday, May 15, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 82 (Thursday, May 15, 2025)] [House] [Pages H2078-H2079] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] IMPROVING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SAFETY AND WELLNESS THROUGH DATA ACT The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on passage of the bill (H.R. 2240) to require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 403, nays 11, not voting 19, as follows: [Roll No. 131] YEAS--403 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Baumgartner Bean (FL) Beatty Begich Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Biggs (AZ) Biggs (SC) Bilirakis Bishop Boebert Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Brecheen Bresnahan Brown Brownley Budzinski Burchett Burlison Bynum Calvert Cammack Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Ciscomani Cisneros Clark (MA) Cleaver Cline Cloud Clyburn Clyde Cohen Cole Collins Comer Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Donalds Downing Dunn (FL) Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Fields Figures Fine Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Fry Fulcher Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gosar Graves Gray Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Hayes Hern (OK) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hunt Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim Knott Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Lynch Mace Mackenzie Magaziner Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mannion Massie Mast Matsui McBath McBride McCaul McClain McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McGuire McIver Meeks Menendez Meng Messmer Meuser Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Min Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moore (WV) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nadler Neal Neguse Nehls Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Olszewski Omar Onder Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Patronis Pelosi Perez Perry Peters Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Quigley Randall Reschenthaler Riley (NY) Rivas Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Ross Rouzer Roy Ruiz Rulli Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin [[Page H2079]] Scott, David Self Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spartz Stansbury Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stevens Strickland Strong Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Swalwell Sykes Takano Taylor Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Titus Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Wied Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NAYS--11 Casar Clarke (NY) Frost Garcia (IL) Green, Al (TX) Jayapal Lee (PA) Ocasio-Cortez Pressley Ramirez Tlaib NOT VOTING--19 Auchincloss Buchanan Connolly Crane Doggett Garamendi Gill (TX) Gottheimer James Joyce (OH) Kennedy (UT) Lofgren McClain Delaney Newhouse Norcross Pettersen Raskin Sherrill Trahan {time} 1635 So the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. AUCHINCLOSS. Mr. Speaker, I was necessarily absent from votes today. Had I been present, I would have voted NAY on Roll Call No. 130 and YEA on Roll Call No. 131. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Ms. PETTERSEN. Mr. Speaker, I missed Roll Call votes 130 through 131. Had I been present, I would have voted NAY on Roll Call No. 130 and YEA on Roll Call No. 131. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, due to unanticipated personal reasons, I missed an important vote on H.R. 2240 and H.R. 2255. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 130, and YEA on Roll Call No. 131. ____________________

Referenced legislation: HR2240, HR2240, HR2255